Brazilian president is doing effectively and ought to be discharged early subsequent week, his medical staff says.
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has undergone a second surgical procedure after looking for therapy this week for an intracranial haemorrhage, his medical staff stated.
Lula’s private physician, Roberto Kalil, stated throughout a information convention on Thursday that the follow-up process to dam blood circulate to the affected space was a “success”.
“The president is awake and talking,” Kalil advised reporters on the Hospital Sirio-Libanes in Sao Paulo the place Lula, 79, is being handled.
The president was transported to the hospital from the capital Brasilia earlier this week after he skilled complications that his medical doctors linked to a latest fall.
Lula, who was sworn in as president in early 2023, had curtailed journey in latest months after he suffered trauma to the again of his head when he fell at residence in late October.
The left-wing leader hit his head after falling in a toilet on the presidential residence and acquired a number of stitches.
On Thursday, Lula’s medical doctors careworn that he was doing effectively bodily and mentally, and will quickly be capable to return to his duties.
Through the newest surgical procedure, medical doctors inserted a catheter in Lula’s femoral artery to dam blood circulate going by way of the center meningeal artery in his head, to minimise the chance of a haemorrhage reoccurring.
Kalil described the process as “routine” and “minimally invasive”, carried out below sedation quite than anaesthesia. The catheter was prone to be eliminated in a while Thursday.
“If all the things continues as it’s, in the beginning of subsequent week the president ought to be discharged” from the Sao Paulo hospital, Kalil stated.
“He’ll progressively resume his regular exercise,” the physician added, noting that though Lula would be capable to work, his convalescence would nonetheless require “relative relaxation over a number of weeks”.
Neurologist Rogerio Tuma additionally stated on Thursday that the Brazilian president’s “neurological examination is regular”.
“He’s very effectively,” Tuma added, however “he shouldn’t exert himself bodily or mentally.”
